tagz.rb is generates html, xml, or any sgml variant like a small ninja
running across the backs of a herd of giraffes swatting of heads like a
mark-up weedwacker. weighing in at less than 300 lines of code tagz.rb adds
an html/xml/sgml syntax to ruby that is both unobtrusive, safe, and available
globally to objects without the need for any builder or superfluous objects.
tagz.rb is designed for applications that generate html to be able to do so
easily in any context without heavyweight syntax or scoping issues, like a
ninja sword through butter.

FEATURES

- use as a library or mixin
- simple, clean and consistent mark-up that is easy to visually
distinguish from other ruby methods
- auto-compatibility with rails/actionview
- ability to independently open and close tagz in markup
- intelligent auto-escaping of both attributes and content for both html
and xml
- validate your html/xml with 'ruby -c' syntax check
- generally bitchin
- no lame method_missing approach that prevents tagz like 'type' from being
generated

7.0.0
- * IMPORTANT * NOT BACKWARD COMPATIBLE (thus version bump)
the tagz functionality itself has not changed, but the defaults for
excaping have! now tagz will escape attributes, but NOT content, in the
default mode. you can easily configure something else with
Tagz.escape!(:content => true, :attributes => true)
which would be like saying
Tagz.xml_mode!
or
Tagz.escape!(:content => false, :attributes => true)
which would be like saying
Tagz.html_mode!
to repeat, the default is 'Tagz.html_mode!'
6.0.0
- reorganize lib to avoid dumping a few constants into the includee - aka
don't absolutely minimize namespace pollution. there is now reason to
thing this version shouldn't be backwards compat - i bumped the version
just in case
5.1.0
- attribute/content auto-escaping can be turned off with
Tagz.i_know_what_the_hell_i_am_doing!
and turned back on with
Tagz.i_do_not_know_what_the_hell_i_am_doing!
attribute and content escaping can be configured individually too. see
tests for examples
thanks Dan Fitzpatrick
- << and concat escape (if configured) while puts and push and write do not
thanks JoelVanderWerf
5.0.0
- introduce better escaping for attributes using xchar.rb approach
- indroduce smart escaping for content
- make Tagz.globally kick ass more hard
- note that this version is not backward compatibile if you were relying
on tagz never escaping any content should be an ok upgrade for most
applications
4.6.0
- fix a bug with self closing tagz that had crept in 1.0.0 -> 4.2.0. thx
jeremy hinegardner
- added tests from 1.0.0 back into svn
4.4.0
- remove dependancy on cgi lib, tagz is now completely standalone
4.3.0
- detect rails and auto-include into ActionController::Base and include
globally into ActionView::Base
4.2.0
- general lib cleanup
- introduction of dual-mixin technique (Tagz.globally)
- few small bug fixes
- ninja tales